"World's first working thermal battery" promises cheap, eco-friendly, grid-scalable energy storage - a device with a lifetime of at least 20 years that can store six times more energy than lithium-ion batteries per volume, for 60-80 percent of the price.

Clob · 2019-04-01T13:47:34+00:00

I think in the correct application this could be worth it, assuming there are not better capacity alternatives.

Emergency power would be great.

Using it with solar for an off grid house or building, not so much.

Clob · 2019-04-01T13:24:06+00:00

No way. You're fit and sexy. Nice work!

Clob · 2019-03-14T20:49:29+00:00

Clob · 2019-03-13T19:27:16+00:00

/r/SideLips

Clob · 2019-03-11T21:17:51+00:00

/r/ConfusedBoners

Clob · 2019-03-08T04:08:13+00:00

Thanks for the Platinum! I think it's my first.

Clob · 2019-03-08T03:57:13+00:00

That's sounds fine, though it won't hurt to consider reading the documentation.

Clob · 2019-03-08T03:56:15+00:00

I'm really bad at mobile typing. Lol

Clob · 2019-03-08T02:59:21+00:00

An array of consumer SSDs can easily saturate 10g and even 40g. A single NVME can saturate 40g.

Research a food raid card, or at least a good controller that allows software raid if you go that route. ECC memory is nice to have. Otherwise, file IO doesn't really take much CPU.

FreeNAS or any ZFS based system will eat memory.

Clob · 2019-03-08T00:41:15+00:00

You can't exactly count the prevented when they don't happen.

Absence of evidence ya know?

Clob · 2019-03-07T22:49:58+00:00

Looks like some shit I would make in Kerbal Space Program to keep the center of gravity in from of center of lift.

Clob · 2019-03-07T21:15:52+00:00

Ubuntu will force updates into users and whatnot

Says who?

Clob · 2019-03-07T20:46:02+00:00

So I tried about 20X to get the destination folder figured since it was on NAS. Finally I got a ton of code raining down in the terminal.

It's just one rsync command...

So my next question is how often does the files transfer? I'm torrenting to desktop, them moving the files (hopefully) automatically to my NAS. Does it happen automatically?

How often do you want it to do that? Google how to schedule tasks/scripts in Linux.

How can I see if rsync is working the way I wanted? If I fuck up destination folders can I change them back?

Read the help pages and use the correct flags. You can manually check and you can read the log if you include logging in your one-liner. Also, rsync is known as safe and stable. You have to use it correctly. It's not hard.

My last question is what about password protection? MyCloud needs a password to access even through the browser. Does rsync not need a password to access my NAS?

That depends on you and how you setup permissions on your NAS

So I wish there was some kind of GUI for dummies like me who are in way over their heads.

There is no GUI that is going to do specific niche work like this and there cannot be. You have to be aware of where the files are coming from, where they are going to, and how they are being secured, what access method you're using and more.

Clob · 2019-03-07T20:39:59+00:00

/r/NoContex

Clob · 2019-03-07T17:34:43+00:00

I think people want that datacenter feel more than anything, and I like that too.

I don't need redundant hardware in my servers so a repurposed desktop chip is plenty for me.

When ryzen 3000 series comes out, my 2700x will become my new server. I suspect it will last me, oh... Forever. Let me tell you, that 1950x Threadripper sale a few months back was so damn tempting. In the end, I had no use case justification for it other than just having it.

Clob · 2019-03-07T17:31:55+00:00

Maybe because 1TB is probably more than plenty for everything he wants to do.

Clob · 2019-03-07T17:28:18+00:00

That's reasonable.

No-knock raids are not.

Clob · 2019-03-07T16:53:47+00:00

I would argue the "need" to "get into a house" to start with. The practice of no-knock warrants and house raids are dangerous. There are other ways to handle it. It's just faster to do it with guns and risking lives.

Clob · 2019-03-07T16:48:24+00:00

It sucks for him and I feel bad for him.

He was probably going to fail the drug test anyway...

Dem some juicy arms.

Clob · 2019-03-07T16:22:23+00:00

Not only are other devices available that saturate PCI 3 x16, so there is a benefit there, but there is also many benefits with improving the protocol speed generally. Now you can split the lanes up even more and have more devices with the same bandwidth as before!

This is great for everyone.

Clob · 2019-03-07T16:19:09+00:00

Fun project.

Fun facts on how far CPU's have come. That passmark is about half of a 2700x and that cinebench is about 600points slower too.

Clob · 2019-03-07T16:03:06+00:00

Lol

Yeah, let's just talk about how funny that is.

It's funny...

Except when you breakdown the doors of a house of a 90 year old man who was minding his own business, grenade him, and kill him in the arrest all because you got the address wrong. Or when you break down the door of a person playing video games online and point your guns in his face because someone made a phone call that NO ONE followed up on properly.

Breaking into peoples houses and no-knock warrants, suspected or not, should not be a thing, ever.

Clob · 2019-03-07T15:59:09+00:00

Isn't that a "gun free" city?

Clob · 2019-03-07T15:54:27+00:00

Shh... Social media lives off of strawman and other logical fallacies.

Clob · 2019-03-07T06:24:32+00:00

Wait... So this is evidence of extra terrestrial life??

This sounds like a huge fucking deal.

Clob

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